Error: 'Path does not point to a valid folder' 'Could not find a Joomla! XML setup file' 'File...does not exist'

You are probably dealing with a corrupt download. Both Symantec and McAfee are known to corrupt downloads with certain settings. They can also corrupt the extensions send and received by email. So try this: go to the download area, disable the firewall/virusscanner, download the file, enable the firewall/virusscanner.

How to install?

Download the latest version of the component.

Go to 'Extensions' > 'Manage' > 'install'.

Click 'browse' and select the file which you just downloaded. The file name starts with 'com_adminmenumanager'.

How to show the Joomla menu only to 'Super Users' ?

How to create a link to the frontend ?

If you like to create a link from the admin-menu to a frontend page, enter ../ at the start of the url. example:

../index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=8

The above will display a specific article at the frontend of the site.

How to create a link to a page without the navigation ?

If you like to create a link from the admin-menu to a page with hidden navigation, add to the url:

&tmpl=component

example:

index.php?option=com_modules

change to

index.php?option=com_modules&tmpl=component

How to use with template 'Mission Control' ?

The administrator template 'Mission Control' by Rockettheme does not use the Joomla module system to display any modules in the backend at all. So it can not display the admin-menu-manager module.

(To see for yourself that the template ignores the Joomla module framework, go to the 'module-manager' > 'admin modules' and disable the Joomla admin menu, it will show anyway, because in this template, it is simply not a module like in any other template.)

To load the module into the template:

Go to the module manager > 'admin modules' find the Admin-Menu-Manager module. Make a note of the module id.

Show custom menu only to some group(s) ?

You can create a menu and assign this to an accesslevel in the module-manager. In a default Joomla install all backend groups ('Manager', 'Administrator' and 'Super Users') are all assigned to accesslevel 'Special'. So if you want only some backend groups to see the custom menu, you will have to create a new accesslevel.

Create a new accesslevel

Go to 'Users' > 'Access Levels'

Click 'New'

Enter a title. example 'admin menu (custom)'.

Select the groups that should see the menu

Click 'Save & Close'

Now you can assign the custom menu-module to the new accesslevel

Go to the module manager 'Extensions' > 'Module Manager'

Select in the first filter ('Site') > 'Administrator', to see the admin-modules

Open the Admin-Menu-Manager module

Set 'access' to the accesslevel you just created

Click 'Save & Close'.

After you save this setting, it might be that you can not see the menu anymore. This is a cache issue. Just logout and login again and it will be there.

Show Joomla menu only to some group(s) ?

In a default Joomla install, the Joomla admin menu is assigned to accesslevel 'special'. All backend groups ('Manager', 'Administrator' and 'Super Users') are all assigned to that level. So if you want only some backend groups to see the Joomla menu, you will have to create a new accesslevel.

Create a new accesslevel

Go to 'Users' > 'Access Levels'

Click 'New'

Enter a title. example 'admin menu (joomla)'.

Select the groups that should see the menu

Click 'Save & Close'

Now you can assign the joomla-menu-module to the new accesslevel

Go to the module manager 'Extensions' > 'Module Manager'

Select in the first filter ('Site') > 'Administrator', to see the admin-modules

Open the 'Admin Menu'

Set 'access' to the accesslevel you just created

Click 'Save & Close'.

After you save this setting, it might be that you can not see the Joomla menu anymore. This is a cache issue. Just logout and login again and it will be there.

How to create a link to 'article new' in a specific category ?

Joomla 3

In the Joomla 3 backend there is no way to parse the prevered category via the url. But you can use a template override to do this.

Create this folder if it is not there yetadministrator/templates/template_name/html/com_content/article

If there is a edit.php already in the folder, go to 4.

Copy-paste administrator/components/com_content/views/tmpl/edit.php into the folder you just created

Open administrator/templates/template_name/html/com_content/article/edit.php in a text-editor (like notepad)

How to create a link to a page with a filter set ?

Make a link to the page and add the filter name and the value which should be selected. Note that this does not always work in all filters and in all components. Please note that this will only work in the Joomla backend.

&filter_group_id=2

or

&filter[group_id]=2

The filter name can be found in the HTML of the page you link to.

Check in the HTML the name of the select-element. example:

<select name="filter_group_id"

use the filtername example index.php?option=com_modules&filter_position=position-7orexample index.php?option=com_modules&filter[position]=position-7

Please note that this does not work consistently for each component and each filter.

Multilanguage menu items

First enable the display of the multilanguage options in the Admin-Menu-Manager configuration. At 'Show multi language options' select 'show'.

You can select per menu-item to display the title:

as text (default)

translate the language constant

If no language constant is entered it will fallback to the menu-item's title.

You can use any language constant from the language files, both backend and frontend. If the language contant is in both, the backend file will be used.

You can create custom language constants in the language manager.

go to 'extensions' > 'language manager' > 'overrides'

select the language AND 'administrator' in the selector

click 'new'

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Pre/post sale

On how many websites can I use the pro-version?

There is no limit. Use it on as many sites as you like.

Is the pro-version encrypted?

no.

Does the pro-version need Ioncube?

No. The pro version is un-encrypted and does not need Ioncube. Only the trial version is encrypted. The free and the pro-version are not encrypted and do not need Ioncube on the server.

Is there a trial-version available?

Yes. You can download the trial-version on the project page. You can use this extension unlimited on localhost. If used online it can be used for a few weeks.

free-version pro-version, what is the difference?

free

pro

number of menus

1

no limits

number of menu-items

5

no limits

menu-item access per accesslevel/usergroup

x

I purchased this extension, how to download?

After payment is confirmed you login and click in the right column on 'my extensions'. Then click on your purchase and download the files.

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Known issues

Joomla does not show backend modules per language. Multi language menu's.

In the module manager, you can select a language per module. This will show/hide the modules according to the users' selected language at the frontend. This does not work in the backend. This issue has been reported in the Joomla bugtracker.